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Public Citizen Foundation

Name: Public Citizen Foundation grants, 2021–2023
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

63
grants reported: $4.7M
total given: 2021–2023
filing years: $30,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

houston port coalition democracy ports communities health mobilization

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund3 grants · $1.5M
Public Citizen1 grant · $475,000
Coalition for Sensible Safeguards2 grants · $457,800
Air Alliance Houston3 grants · $259,746
Coalition of Community Organizations3 grants · $223,723
Fair Shot Texas2 grants · $200,000
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully3 grants · $183,400
East Harris County Empowerment Council3 grants · $164,400
Texas Health and Environment Alliance1 grant · $113,886
Philadelphia Primitive Baptist Church1 grant · $100,000

Giving over time

$956,893

2021

$1.6M

2022

$2.0M

2023

Grant history

All 63 reported grants, largest first.

$513,650
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2021
Reducing fossil-fuel finance through financial regulation
$500,000
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Reducing fossil fuel
$500,000
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Reducing fossil-fuel finance through financial regulation
$475,000
Public Citizen · Washington, DC · 2023
Research and educational activities of congress watch
$391,600
Coalition for Sensible Safeguards · Washington, DC · 2022
Assist the coalition for sensible safeguards to improve and protect the regulatory state.
$132,982
Air Alliance Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
To support environmental quality
$117,841
Coalition of Community Organizations · Humble, TX · 2023
Support as a member of health port communities coalition (hpcc)
$113,886
Texas Health and Environment Alliance · Houston, TX · 2023
Support as a member of health port communities coalition (hpcc)
$104,400
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully · Houston, TX · 2023
Support as a member of health port communities coalition (hpcc)
$100,000
Fair Shot Texas · Austin, TX · 2023
Support the port houston campaign, hire an organizer
$100,000
Philadelphia Primitive Baptist Church · Port St Joe, FL · 2023
Coordinate grassroots opposition of future lng export facilities in fl panhandle region
$100,000
Fair Shot Texas · Austin, TX · 2022
Texas climate jobs project
$91,400
East Harris County Empowerment Council · Houston, TX · 2023
Support as a member of health port communities coalition (hpcc)
$86,400
Bayou City Waterkeeper · Houston, TX · 2023
Support as a member of health port communities coalition (hpcc)
$80,000
Stand Up America · New York, NY · 2021
Federal democracy reforms, defending attacks on elections
$75,000
Democracy 21 Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2021
Federal democracy reforms, defending attacks on elections, work on trumpwatch project and small donor revolution project
$73,800
Environmental Community Advocates of Galena Park · Galena Park, TX · 2023
Support as a member of health port communities coalition (hpcc)
$69,000
Common Defense Education Fund · New York, NY · 2022
January 6th interim report, our freedoms, our vote mobilization
$68,382
Air Alliance Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Develop a clean air strategy for the port of houston
$66,200
Coalition for Sensible Safeguards · Washington, DC · 2023
Hire consultant to provide regulatory expertise to advance mission
$65,000
Isaiah · St Paul, MI · 2022
We choose us coalition
$61,441
Coalition of Community Organizations · Houston, TX · 2022
Improving houston area quality of life by reducting port pollution
$58,382
Air Alliance Houston · Houston, TX · 2021
Develop a clean air strategy for the port of houston
$49,920
Texas Health and Environmental Alliance · Houston, TX · 2022
Assist the health ports community coalition to education communities around the port of houston
$48,000
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully · Houston, TX · 2022
Healthy ports for houston
$45,000
Arizona Center · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
Federal democracy reforms, defending attacks on elections
$45,000
East Harris County Empowerment Council · Houston, TX · 2022
Healthy ports for houston
$44,441
Coalition of Community Organizations · Houston, TX · 2021
Improving houston area quality of life by reducting port pollution
$37,500
Energy Programs Consortium · Washington, DC · 2022
Campaign to halt methane exports
$32,920
Texas Health and Environmental Alliance · Houston, TX · 2021
Assist the health ports community coalition to education communities around the port of houston
$31,000
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully · Houston, TX · 2021
Healthy ports for houston
$30,000
Constitutional Accountability Center · Washington, DC · 2021
Federal democracy reforms, defending attacks on elections
$28,000
East Harris County Empowerment Council · Houston, TX · 2021
Healthy ports for houston
$20,000
Fort Bend County Houston Environmental Organization · Fresno, TX · 2023
Support as a participant in the wa parish fort bend community campaign
$20,000
Fort Bend County Houston Environmental Organization · Fresno, TX · 2022
Wa parish fort bend community campaign
$18,000
Centro Por La Justicia · San Antonio, TX · 2022
San antonio resistance hub
$18,000
Texas Solar Energy Society · Austin, TX · 2021
Pedernales electric cooperative civic engagement
$15,000
Generation Vote Education Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Dfad organize youth democracy summit
$15,000
Promote the Vote · Lansing, MI · 2022
Our freedoms, our vote mobilization
$15,000
Stand Up America · New York, NY · 2022
Federal democracy reforms, defending attacks on elections
$15,000
People for the American Way Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021
1/6 interim report mobilization
$12,500
National Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2022
Coalition for sensible safeguards
$12,500
Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Assist the coalition for sensible safeguards to improve and protect the regulatory state.
$10,500
Carolina for All Education Foundation · Hopkins, SC · 2023
John lewis day of commemoration and action organize and educate the public
$10,500
Carolina for All Education Fund · Hopkins, SC · 2022
Our freedoms, our vote mobilization
$10,000
All Voting Is Local · Washington, DC · 2023
Educate the public on election protection.
$10,000
Center for Common Ground · Ruther Glen, VA · 2023
Dfad organize and educate the public to protect our freedom to vote
$10,000
Our Revolution · Washington, DC · 2021
Mobilize community regarding 1/6 hearings and publication of select committee's report
$8,000
Empowering Arizona · Scottsdale, AZ · 2022
Mlk day events
$8,000
Race Matters · Lewisburg, WV · 2022
Mlk day events
$8,000
Indivisible Project · Washington, DC · 2021
Campaign in response to texas electricity crisis in february 2021
$7,500
Missouri Wins Investor Network · St Louis, MO · 2023
John lewis day of commemoration and action organize and educate the public
$7,500
Hartford Alumnae Chapter · Hartford, CT · 2022
Democracy reforms and mobilization
$7,500
National Black Leadership Conference · Ontario, CA · 2022
Our freedoms, our vote mobilization
$7,200
Indivisible Project · Washington, DC · 2022
Campaign in response to texas electricity crisis in february 2021
$7,000
Equal Ground Education Fund · Orlando, FL · 2023
John lewis day of commemoration and action organize and educate the public
$7,000
Bayou City Waterkeeper · Houston, TX · 2022
Healthy ports for houston
$7,000
Environmental Community Advocates of Galena Park · Galena Park, TX · 2022
Healthy ports for houston
$7,000
Healthy Gulf · New Orleans, LA · 2022
Healthy ports for houston
$6,000
In This Together Nepa · Mountain Top, PA · 2023
Protecting elections campaign: action, support, education
$6,000
Alabama Forward · Montgomery, AL · 2022
Democracy reforms
$6,000
Greater New Haven Branch of the Naacp · New Haven, CT · 2022
Democracy reforms and mobilization
$5,200
The National Organization of Concerned Black Men · Washington, DC · 2022
Our freedoms, our vote mobilization

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.